skagen- where denmark practically melts into the sea

indeed.

i obviously didnt take that picture above, but where you see the bus and alot of people standing was where i stood yesterday. i finally made that trip up to nordjylland (north jutland) and all the way up to the tip of denmark, a little town called skagen. skagen's famous for grenen, the spit created by the meeting of the two seas, the kattegat and the skagerak. ok its also famous for the so-called tilsande kirke (the buried church), whose picture graces the lonely planet guide to denmark.

i made that trip to skagen for 2 reasons. because skagen was the first picture i ever saw of denmark, when i went to the danish embassy a good 10 months ago to apply for my student visa and because i wanted to replicate the photo of the church on the lonely planet guide. sorry ah, sentimental! while i didnt manage to do the church, going to grenen was more than enough.

it was surreal to watch seas crash into one another in the middle of nowhere. and to be able to walk as far as i dared on the wet sand with waves coming at me from the left and the right. like so:





i dont think my pictures actually do justice to the sight, but you can see the v-shape of the waters coming together i guess. and i thank God that even though the weather was pretty erratic when we were at skagen, it didnt rain when we made that trip to grenen. more pictures here:

the sunny skies along the road leading to the lighthouse and grenen.

'danger of death!' - quite true lah. grenen might be totally underwater in high tide.

evidence!

10kr polser! it was a steal. thats the skagen town behind me. its made up of a single cobbled street (sct laurentii vej). only ONE street. this is one very small town.

adelyn looks pretty at peace with the world here.

not our hostel. but cute nonetheless!

now, this is innovation.

our hostel.

lunch at skagen fisketrestaurant: when your floor is sand-covered for decorative purposes, you have an excuse not to clean it.

the awfully long road getting to grenen.

so ive come a full round. last semester i made it to the east of denmark, to bornholm, this time i made to skagen in the north.

and in the words of my very wise mother:

"and its time to go home".